Snowmaking for week of 12/20

[skidude]

Wanted to give everyone a "heads up" regarding additional terrain opening and the snowmaking plan for the coming week.

 

Excellent snowmaking temperatures are forecast for Sunday night through Tuesday, with extremely cold temperatures that should allow us to make a lot of snow. We need one more night to finish up Marjies, Sullivan's trail, Marc Antony, Upper Cleopatra, Honeymoon and Lower Sphinx. We'll also be making more snow on Laurel Glade and in the halfpipe. From there, we'll be working on Julius Caesar, Sunbowl, Home Again, Lower Cleopatra, Near East and others.

 

Unfortunately, a couple days of great snowmaking looks to be followed by a rapid warm up and rain event Wednesday and Thursday. While we'll have enough snow to open more trails before Wednesday, we plan to hold off on grooming those trails until the warm weather and rain pass.

 

Why? Ungroomed snow in piles holds up to warm weather and rain far better than packed, groomed snow. Rain will pass through or run off the piles, and the result will be very good snow conditions when we do groom after the warmup. If we spread out the snow and groom before the warmup, we're likely to lose a lot of snow during the storm and the snow quality will suffer a lot.

 

So, while I'd really like to be able to tell you that we're opening more terrain early this week, its in the best interest of everyone for us to wait and open a significant number of trails for next weekend. 16-18+ trails are not out of the question for the weekend of 12/25 and 12/26. That also means that we'll continue with existing terrain for early this week.

 

Hope that explains our thinking. We don't like the "r" word - rain - but, we feel this is the best way to deal with the evolving situation this week.

 

Dave K

Camelback

 

Fine with me, I don't plan on getting up there until Xmas to ski. Anyway maybe one of these days we will see a little action on another dimond, or 3 and raceway

[Glenn]

That would explain why marjies wasn't open. Sucks, alot, probobly means that only tut, birches and meadows will be open tommorow.

[skidude]

Yupp, park is closed for snowmaking.

 

 

I think they also need to spend one night (or part of one) touching up tut, just so it stays nicer for a longer time xmas week

[Glenn]

Yupp, park is closed for snowmaking.

I think they also need to spend one night (or part of one) touching up tut, just  so it stays nicer for a longer time xmas week

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It got pretty icey but the end of today. We shall see how it holds up. Park was really lame, the box they supposedly had yesterday wasn't there, and there was no transition to the 40, and it was beat up as ever, so it was useless. They had a decent hit, but the landing was way to far back to clear it. Just depressing.

[soldier32]

yea that 40 has always been beat up and like crooked and twisted. i got a couple boardslides on the whole thing though, and a switch boardsllide

[AtomicSkier]

Camelback always has excuses...Blue opened another trail today, a mile long blue, Lazy Mile. The quad opens tuesday, along with 5+ other trails rock on!

[skidude]

Atleast we didn't spend all day waiting inline and on the lift like some mountains...err people...

 

Ehh don't be spamming the CB forum with your blue crap

 

 

CB wasn't really icey by the end of the day, it got a little hardpacky, but ehh still ski able. I thought it was pretty nice at the end, with all the 'fresh' snow off of it.